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From: guido@boring.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Multiple Files and Standard File Package
Message-ID: <6610@boring.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 1-Sep-85 16:42:46 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep  1 16:42:46 1985
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Reply-To: guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum)
Organization: "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <2298@sdcrdcf.UUCP> dennisg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Dennis Griesser) writes:
>[...] how can an application tell what files reside on a disk?
>Even CP/M-80 allowed you to open with "ambigous file references" (wildcards),
>but it seems that Mac programmers must read the disk directory.
>
>Is there a better way to find out what's on a disk?
>
>Will anyone post a sample source program that does this?

Yes, you must read the disk directory, but you don't have to do it all
yourself.  There are quite powerful toolbox calls to easily get at all
files on the disk without you having to know a bit about disk
structure.  I have posted some sample code that I ripped from my Lisa
Hard Disk Backup Utility (soon to be posted!) to net.sources.mac.

-- 
	Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam (guido@mcvax.UUCP)